Crystallographic structure of the T domain-DNA complex of the Brachyury transcription factor

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 884-888

  Müller, Christoph W ^a   Herrmann, Bernhard G ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0039706410     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39929     Document Type: Article

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